B.A.A. President Says He is Focusing on Positive Changes

Smith said despite the accusations against him, since his election only four months ago, he has been focusing on trying to make positive changes that would improve the standards of sports. One of those efforts is to see how the B.A.A. can get the track at the Marion Jones Stadium replaced or redone. The accusations, he said, are just an attempt to undermine his plans because he is doing things differently.

 

Cojac Smith, President, Belize Athletics Association

“It’s derailing from what we’re actually trying to do. We’re trying to print a positive picture to the public at large and using the media from a positive perspective. However, we’ve not been able to do that with these constant little battles being fought and getting that done. For instance, Marion, we have in negotiations right now where we have an engineer looking at the track right now to make an assessment of the track, which is in deplorable condition. And we’re trying to see how best we can – the track at the Marion Jones.  I don’t know if you went there recently, but the track is in bad shape. So we’re trying to fix those things and getting real work done.”